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NEW YORK, July 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by Mayors Against Illegal Guns: Statement of Mayors Against Illegal Guns Co-Chair New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg "Your heart shatters when you think of the family members who were given the worst news imaginable, and we pray for the recovery of the dozens who were injured. Now there will be many expressions of support and condolences from politicians in the coming days, but maybe it's...
'CubeSat' will help solve mysteries of terrestrial gamma ray flashes, 1,000 times more powerful than 'northern lights' Imagine a fully-instrumented satellite the size of a half-gallon milk carton. Then imagine that milk carton whirling in space, catching never-before-seen glimpses of processes thought to be linked to lightning. The little satellite that could is a CubeSat called Firefly, and it's on a countdown to launch next year. CubeSats, named for the roughly four-inch-cubed...
A stunning image showing Aurora Australis – the Southern Lights – glowing over Concordia station in the Antarctic, one of the remotest places on Earth, on 18 July 2012. It was taken by ESA-sponsored scientist Alexander Kumar and his colleague Erick Bondoux from about 1 km from the station, located in the Antarctic at 75°S latitude. The French–Italian Concordia station's programme of research includes glaciology, human biology and the atmosphere. ESA uses the base to prepare for...
PHILADELPHIA, July 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following statement was issued today by U.S. Conference of Mayors President Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter after today's mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110125/MM36443LOGO) "Once again our nation's attention is riveted on a single act of violence that has claimed a dozen lives and left dozens more injured. "The nation's mayors express their shock at a mass shooting and...
redOrbit is joining in solidarity with Tim Tuttle of The New 93Q in Houston, TX, who had this to say on Facebook: "It's pretty apparent that this spineless loser in Colorado decided to ambush & shoot unarmed, innocent people in order to gain fame & notoriety. The Q Morning Zoo has decided to take a stand and never utter his name on our show. Ever! From this day forward he will only be referred to as "The Aurora Gutless Coward." Sorry scumbag, but you don't get a movie or trading...
AURORA, Neb., July 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hamilton CapTel(®) presents two panel discussions entitled, "A Holistic Approach To Hearing Healthcare for Veterans" at the VFW National Convention in Reno, NV on July 21, 2012. The panel discussion is at 9:00 am and again at 11:00 am in the Reno Sparks Convention Center. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120719/LA43445LOGO) According to the Government Accounting Office (GAO), hearing loss and hearing-related conditions are...
[ Watch the Video ] redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A solar storm, scheduled to arrive Saturday morning and last through the end of the day on Sunday, is expected to put on a show for sky-gazers but should otherwise have little to no effect, according to scientists. According to the Associated Press (AP), the storm began on Thursday, as the sun unleashed a powerful solar flare -- the sixth recorded by scientists this year. The NOAA Space Weather Prediction...
VANCOUVER, July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Focus Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: FCV) is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Aurora porphyry copper-molybdenum property located in the Department of Cusco, Peru. The property is located between 2,600 - 2,900m above sea level on the northeastern margin of the Yauri-Andahuaylas porphyry belt, host to several important copper and copper-gold deposits including Las Bambas, Huaquira, Constancia, Tintaya and Antapaccay mines. Focus can acquire...
TORONTO, June 25, 2012 /CNW/ - Guyana Goldfields Inc. (TSX: GUY) ("GGI" or "the Company") is pleased to report an updated mineral resource statement for its 100%-owned Aurora Gold Project in Guyana, South America. This new estimate includes all drilling data obtained up to the end of April 30, 2012. The estimate was prepared by SRK Consulting (Canada), Inc. ("SRK") of Toronto, Canada in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") and provides an update to the previous...
WIXOM, Mich., June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Acromag's new XMC-6VLX mezzanine modules feature a configurable Xilinx® Virtex(TM)-6 FPGA enhanced with multiple high-speed memory buffers, I/O, and numerous high-bandwidth serial interfaces. The FPGA provides rapid processing and is closely coupled to the serial interconnects to prevent data transfer bottlenecks. 10-Gigabit Ethernet, PCI Express, Serial RapidIO, and Xilinx Aurora implementations are supported. Optional front-panel I/O...
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Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (May 30, 1908 - April 2, 1995) was a Swedish plasma physicist born in Norrköping, Sweden. Alfvén received his PhD from the University of Uppsala in 1934. His thesis was titled "Investigations of the Ultra-short Electromagnetic Waves." He was originally trained as an electrical power engineer and later moved on to research and teaching in the fields of plasma physics. Alfvén made many contributions to plasma physics, including theories describing the...
Aurora -- The Polar Aurora are natural displays of light in the sky that can be seen with the unaided eye only at night. An auroral display in the Northern Hemisphere is called the aurora borealis, or the northern lights; in the Southern Hemisphere it is called the aurora australis. Auroras are the most visible effect of the sun's activity on the earth's atmosphere. The beautiful and often eerie curtains of light in the night time sky have been observed by people for millennia. An aurora...
Van Allen Radiation Belt -- The Van Allen radiation belt is a torus of energetic charged particles around Earth, trapped by Earth's magnetic field. The presence of a radiation belt had been theorized prior to the Space Age and the belt's presence was confirmed by the Explorer I on January 31, 1958 and Explorer III missions, under Doctor James Van Allen. The trapped radiation was first mapped out by Explorer IV and Pioneer III. Qualitatively, it is useful to view this belt as...
Solar Wind -- Solar wind, a stream of particles (mostly high-energy protons ~ 500 Kev) that is continually ejected from the surface of the Sun. The composition of this plasma is identical to the Sun's corona, 73% hydrogen and 25% helium with the remainder as trace impurities, and is ionized. Near Earth, the velocity of the solar wind varies from 200km/s-889km/s. The average is 450 km/s. Approximately 3000 tons of material is lost from the Sun every hour as solar wind. Since solar...
Solar Flare -- A solar flare is a violent eruption that explodes from a star's photosphere with energies equivalent to tens of millions of hydrogen bombs. Solar flares from the Sun send out a streams of highly energetic solar wind that can present a radiation hazard to spacecraft outside of planetary magnetospheres and can disrupt radio signals on Earth. Solar flares were first observed on the Sun in 1859 by English astronomer Richard Carrington. They have also been observed to...
